Billy Bathgate, is a book of a young boy's transition into manhood. It is an amazingly well-written book that intrigued me the entire way through. It starts out in Billy's hometown, the Bronx of New York in the twenties; a time of social unrest and prohibition. The apartment building Billy lives i...

Billy Bathgate is a book about a young boy's transition into manhood. It is an amazingly well-written book that intrigued me the entire way through. It starts in Billy's hometown, the Bronx of New York, in the twenties, a time of social unrest and prohibition. The apartment building Billy lives ...